RoboCup 2013: Robot World Cup XVII

1. Oral Presentations

   1. Unexpected Situations in Service Robot Environment: Classification and Reasoning Using Naive Physics

      • Anastassia Küstenmacher, Naveed Akhtar, Paul G. Plöger, Gerhard Lakemeyer

      Pages 219-230

   2. Person Following by Mobile Robots: Analysis of Visual and Range Tracking Methods and Technologies

      • Wilma Pairo, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Mauricio Correa, Patricio Loncomilla

      Pages 231-243

   3. Fast Monocular Visual Compass for a Computationally Limited Robot

      • Peter Anderson, Bernhard Hengst

      Pages 244-255

   4. Reusing Risk-Aware Stochastic Abstract Policies in Robotic Navigation Learning

      • Valdinei Freire da Silva, Marcelo Li Koga, Fábio Gagliardi Cozman, Anna Helena Reali Costa

      Pages 256-267

   5. Motivated Reinforcement Learning for Improved Head Actuation of Humanoid Robots

      • Jake Fountain, Josiah Walker, David Budden, Alexandre Mendes, Stephan K. Chalup

      Pages 268-279

   6. Efficient Distributed Communications for Multi-robot Systems

      • João C. G. Reis, Pedro U. Lima, João Garcia

      Pages 280-291

2. Poster Presentations

   1. Distributed Formation Control of Heterogeneous Robots with Limited Information

      • Michael de Denus, John Anderson, Jacky Baltes

      Pages 292-303

   2. RoSHA: A Multi-robot Self-healing Architecture

      • Dominik Kirchner, Stefan Niemczyk, Kurt Geihs

      Pages 304-315

   3. Routing with Dijkstra in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks

      • Khudaydad Mahmoodi, Muhammet Balcılar, M. Fatih Amasyalı, Sırma Yavuz, Yücel Uzun, Feruz Davletov

      Pages 316-325

   4. Shape Based Round Object Detection Using Edge Orientation Histogram

      • Hamid Mobalegh, Lovísa Irpa Helgadóttir, Raúl Rojas

      Pages 326-335

   5. RoboCup Logistics League Sponsored by Festo: A Competitive Factory Automation Testbed

      • Tim Niemueller, Daniel Ewert, Sebastian Reuter, Alexander Ferrein, Sabina Jeschke, Gerhard Lakemeyer

      Pages 336-347

   6. Parallel Computation Using GPGPU to Simulate Crowd Evacuation Behaviors: Planning Effective Evacuation Guidance at Emergencies

      • Toshinori Niwa, Masaru Okaya, Tomoichi Takahashi

      Pages 348-359

   7. Vision Based Referee Sign Language Recognition System for the RoboCup MSL League

      • Paulo Trigueiros, Fernando Ribeiro, Luís Paulo Reis

      Pages 360-372

   8. Unsupervised Recognition of Salient Colour for Real-Time Image Processing

      • David Budden, Alexandre Mendes

      Pages 373-384

   9. Improved Particle Filtering for Pseudo-Uniform Belief Distributions in Robot Localisation

      • David Budden, Mikhail Prokopenko

      Pages 385-395

   10. Robust and Efficient Object Recognition for a Humanoid Soccer Robot

       • Alexander Härtl, Ubbo Visser, Thomas Röfer

       Pages 396-407

   11. Automatic Generation of Humanoid’s Geometric Model Parameters

       • Vincent Hugel, Nicolas Jouandeau

       Pages 408-419

   12. Modification of Foot Placement for Balancing Using a Preview Controller Based Humanoid Walking Algorithm

       • Oliver Urbann, Matthias Hofmann

       Pages 420-431

   13. Iterative Snapping of Odometry Trajectories for Path Identification

       • Richard Wang, Manuela Veloso, Srinivasan Seshan

       Pages 432-443

   14. Evaluation of Recent Approaches to Visual Odometry from RGB-D Images

       • Sergey Alexandrov, Rainer Herpers

       Pages 444-455

This book includes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 17th Annual RoboCup International Symposium, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2013. The 20 revised papers presented together with 11 champion team papers, 3 best paper awards, 11 oral presentations, and 19 special track on open-source hard- and software papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. The papers present current research and educational activities within the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence with a special focus to robot hardware and software, perception and action, robotic cognition and learning, multi-robot systems, human-robot interaction, education and edutainment, and applications.

• computer vision
• control methods
• cyber-physical systems
• intelligent robots
• machine learning
• object recognition
• object tracking
• planning and scheduling
• robot world cup
• robotic autonomy
• robotic control
• robotic planning
• robotics
• vision for robotics

• Computer Science Institute VI: Autonomous Intelligent Systems, University Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  Sven Behnke

• School of Computing Science, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

  Manuela Veloso

• Faculty of Science, Informatics Institute, Intelligent Robotics Lab, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  Arnoud Visser

• Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Department of Control Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  Rong Xiong

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